Opinion

The Economic Freedom Fighters once made a stab at intellectual credibility. Perhaps smarting from the comments about leader Julius Malema’s poor...

The nation is agog at the video of the Economic Freedom Fighters MP Marshall Dlamini slapping a white security guard. EFF communicator-in-chief (to...

It has been more than three years since the United Nations general assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the money...

Cyril will steer SA to safety

In April 1819, Mdushane ka Ndlambe of the Rharhabe section of the Xhosa declared war on the British colonial administration in Grahamstown...

Democratic public governance, the exercise of public authority and the execution of policy, is dependent on the coherent composition of the...

There was a time when Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari represented something deeply special – the democratic ideal that a failed government...

In many African countries, a dirty secret of journalism is that reporters earn most of their income from payments by their sources. And the...

I thought that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation...

Nigeria is preparing for its general election. But will it be credible? Nigerian voters are well aware that the elections will not be won solely by...

Once one has read George Orwell, any numbered room can take on sinister significance. The numbered room in 1984 is, after all, the location of...

With this commentary, coming in the wake of our annual Ten Conflicts to Watch and EU Watch List, Crisis Group turns to what 2019 will mean for...

In the last three years, university students in South Africa led countrywide protests demanding transformation, an end to outsourcing of contract...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has unveiled a new plan for the country’s beleaguered state owned power utility, Eskom. During his State of the Nation Address...